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Excavation

  • Grumentum, Foro
  • Grumentum
  • Grumentum
  • Italy
  • Basilicate
  • Province of Potenza
  • Grumento Nova

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  • The Italian Database is the result of a collaboration between:

    MIBAC (Ministero per i Beni e le Attività Culturali - Direzione Generale per i Beni Archeologici),

    ICCD (Istituto Centrale per il Catalogo e la Documentazione) and

    AIAC (Associazione Internazionale di Archeologia Classica).

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Summary (English)

  • In spring 2007 prior to excavations a magnetometer survey was undertaken in the eastern area of the forum. During the summer a kiln, probably for terracottas, was uncovered just below the present ground level, along the eastern side of the back wall of the porticus. Further, a trench was dug up against the external wall of the forum in order to ascertain what remained of this structure.

    Excavation was undertaken in Temple C, in the north-western corner of room A, between the temple and the exterior wall of the porticus. This uncovered, on top of the layers of collapse from the last occupation phase dating to between the mid 4th-mid 5th century A.D., a multiple burial containing three overlying individuals, presumably two adults and a child, covered by large stone slabs. A coin dating to 347/348 A.D. was found by the right hand of one of the individuals.

    Three trenches were opened outside the podium of the round temple (structure H) which revealed diverse deposits and collapses. The pottery recovered, dating to between the 1st century B.C. and the 6th century A.D., was randomly distributed. Of particular interest the discovery in situ of a decorative marble slab positioned on the external wall of the podium, of a stairway in the north-north-eastern section and of an early medieval dry-stone wall, in a position outside and opposite the structure.

    During the same campaign the fill in the foundation cells of Temple D was investigated and a small trench was dug outside the temple building. In all excavation areas natural was reached and thus the stratigraphic sequence was dated from the lime-kiln to the first occupation of the area.

  • Attilio Mastrocinque - Università degli Studi di Verona 

Director

Team

  • Ermanno Finzi - Dipartimento di Geofisica dell’Università di Padova
  • Francesco Guerra - Università IUAV di Venezia
  • Marcello Ciminale - Università degli Studi di Bari
  • Antonio Capano - Soprintendenza per i Beni Archeologici della Basilicata
  • Luigi Sperti - Università Ca’ Foscari di Venezia
  • Alfredo Buonopane - Università di Verona
  • Alexander Heinemann
  • Federica Candelato - Università di Verona
  • Ugo Fusco - Università di Pisa
  • Studenti, dottorandi, specializzandi delle Università di Freiburg, Roma, Venezia, Verona

Research Body

  • CIRCE – Univ. IUAV Venezia
  • Soprintendenza per i Beni Archeologici della Basilicata
  • Università degli Studi di Verona
  • Università di Freiburg im Breisgau

Funding Body

  • Comune di Grumento Nova
  • Studenti

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